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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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MARKET NOTES 
long- DISTANCE FRUIT.—Two or three 
shipments from the Cecil Rhodes Fruit 
Farm.s in South Africa have recently ar¬ 
rived here. There were Kelsey plums, large 
and handsome: Tragedy prunes, a favorite 
h^-re, large riuanlities of which come from 
the t’acific coast during the season; and 
peaches, Foster. Strawberry and lOTberta. 
'I'he fruit came by way of Liverpool, 
wrapped and packed in small otie-layer 
boxes, and retailed at a uniform price of 
50 cents each. 
COTTON.—On March H middling uplands, 
spot, jumped to 10.45 cents in New York, a 
ligiire .seldom seen in the last 10 years. The 
highest figure for 23 years was 12% cents 
in IsW. Since then mill strikes and over- 
piodiiction put the {.rice as low as 514. For 
the last tw'o years conditions have im¬ 
proved Many spinners are excited over 
the present situation, and are buying act¬ 
ively, evidently fearing a further rise. 
.Anywhere from two to three million bales 
are sui)po.sed to be in planters’ hands, but 
owing to floods the roads are not in condi¬ 
tion to move it. 
TOMATO-CAN POWER.—Tn the discus¬ 
sions regarding farm power this item seems 
to have been overlooked. A grocer’s boy 
in a village near New York has discovered 
that an ordinary can of tomatoes contains 
considerable all-wool energy. One cold day 
a teamster bought a can of tomatoes to 
eat with his noon lunch, and asked the boy 
to heat it. It was set on the stove without 
pricking a hole in the top. The boy. busy 
with other matters, forgot all about it. In 
a few minutes something happened. The 
can .shot 10 feet through the air, striking 
a board hard enough to dent it. a.nd i)or- 
tions of the store were sprayed with boil¬ 
ing hot tomatoes so thoroughly that the 
job would have done credit to an expert 
nozzle-man handling Bordeaux Mixture. 
PARAFFINED APPDES.—Our attention 
has been called to a box of western Jona- 
ih.in apples which appear to have been 
coated with some preparation evidently with 
the idea of preserving them. This is about 
the most absurd experiment with fndt that 
we have noted. It certainly was no acci¬ 
dent. as every apple was coated with a 
waxy, sticky substance, all except the 
small cavities containing calyx and stem, 
wldch had the natural color and were un¬ 
touched by the brush or whatever was used 
to do the job. The packer’s name was not 
on the box. The apples were not salable. 
Rubbing or washing had little effect on the 
coating. Scraping with a knife seemed to 
he about the only means of removing the 
stuff. In this way quite a quantity of wax 
could be had. 
HEAVY IMMIGRATION.—During the six 
months ending December 31, 1902, 323,641 Im¬ 
migrants were admitted to this country, an 
average of w'ell toward 2.000 per day for 
tile period. Europe furnished all but 20,000. 
Nearly 78.000 came from Italy. 73,000 from 
Austria-Hungary, and 57,000 from Russia 
and Finland, Sweden. Germany and Eng¬ 
land ranged between 10,000 and 20 , 000 , and 
15 other European countries went between 
432 and 8,026. All Asia furnished 16,296, 10.- 
041 being .Japanese. If but a small percen¬ 
tage of these arrivals were competent or 
willing to help Uncle Sam till his soil, the 
fa.rm labor question would be less trouble¬ 
some, but they go in gangs to do digging 
or other contract work, elbow their way 
into the already crowded parts of large 
cities, and thus help to complicate the city 
problem. 
SMALL APPLE PACKAGE.-“Are boxes 
taking the place of barrels to any extent 
for the shipping of apples, and if so, what 
dimensions are the boxes, how made, of 
what material, and what is the usual 
cost?’ p. B. 
New York. 
The box is not yet taking the place of 
the barrel to any great extent for the 
handling of eastern apples, largely because 
the trade does not care for any but the 
best apples packed in this way. Many 
growers do not have much but ordinary 
fruit, and others do not care to skim out 
the cream of their crop. The time may 
come when lower grades will be wanted in 
boxes, but such shipments are not advised 
now. Several forms of boxes are seen, each 
holding about a bushel. One which seems 
to be growing in favor has the following 
inside measurements: n'^xlP/axlO^ inches. 
Ihe sides, top and bottom are one-fourth- 
inch stuff, and the ends three-fourths-inch. 
Of course the cost varies with locality, as 
low as eight or 10 cents where lumber is 
cheap, running up to 18 cents in other sec¬ 
tions. Any tough light wood, like spruce, 
is suitable. Where one has lumber of his 
own and works it up at odd times, the act¬ 
ual outlay is but little. Wire nails 1% inch 
long make a solid Job. The lumber should 
be clean, and boxes made In a buslne.ss- 
like way. w. w. h. 
THE MAN IN ARMOR 
Was no match for the microbe. Giants 
he might slay but this microscopic or¬ 
ganism defied him, and in mauy a cam¬ 
paign more men were destroyed by camp 
diseases than by the enemy’s sword. 
The one way to 
arm against micro- 
bic disease is to 
keep the blood pure. 
Impure blood both 
breeds and feeds 
disease. 
The signs of im¬ 
pure blood are easy 
to read. Pimples, 
boils, and eruptions 
generally proclaim 
the blood to be im¬ 
pure. Scrofulous 
scores and swellings, 
salt-rheum, eczema, 
etc., are other signs 
of a corrupt condi¬ 
tion of the blood. 
Doctor Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery purifies ths 
blood and cures dis¬ 
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blood’s impurity. It 
cures scrofulous sores, boils, pinmles, 
eczema and other defiling and disfigur¬ 
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"It gives me great pleasure to express my 
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Gray town, Ottawa Co., Ohio. "I suffered every¬ 
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which baffled the .skill of soma of the most 
noted physician.s. Was at once advised to ro to 
the hospital; was doctored there for three 
mouths without success. Came home discour¬ 
aged, Then began to doctor with a ‘chemist.’ 
Ha also failed to help me. Then I began Dr. 
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, with no 
faith whatever in it. Did it only to please my 
wife; but I am happy to tell you that after ta)^ 
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Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in 
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"FMir I V DUPLEX 
I tlb IVlLl.kT FEEDhMILL 
does perfect work 
grinding ear corn, 
In husk or out, mixed 
feed iu any propor¬ 
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Gives a uniform 
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WEEDING A GARDEN 
I by handis the hardestkindofl>ack breaking work. 
I It makes one light headed, too, to stoop over so 
I much, and the sun just seems to bore a hole Into 
the back. The l>etter way is not tohaveany weeds 
I to pull. Mix a few turnip seeds with all others in 
I drilling. Tliese will come up quickly and show 
where the rows are. That gives you a chance to 
work the garden before the plants are up. Right 
here is the place to start in with our **Planel Jr.** 
No. 12 Wheol Hoo and keep it going until 
after the harvest. It is fitted with a lot of at¬ 
tachments for working both sides of the row or 
middles; hills up and opens furrows anti culti¬ 
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crusts after rains and saves all soil moisture by a 
mulch of eartli. Moves every particle of soil so 
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thoroughly that a weed doesn't get a chance to 
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better than six men can with common hoes. 
Ifyou need a hf>rse tool consider the advantages 
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VI Box 1107-V, 
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